SNA kills 18 Al-Shabaab terrorists in Hiran region

GOOBJOOG NEWS|BELETWENE: The Somali National Army’s elite squad (Danab) has killed 18 Alshabab terrorists in a planned operation in Buq-Aqable village, Beletweyne, on Thursday, SNA’s Chief, Gen.Odawa Yusuf, told State Media.

The SNA Chief added that his team destroyed the group’s main outpost near Tihsile and Garas Gawan villages in the Lower Shabelle region, where the militants assembled and prepared explosive devices used to commit atrocities across several parts of the country.

The latest deadly assault on the group comes as locals continue to arm themselves in a bid to back government forces against the group, which has now gone overboard to the point of destroying and poisoning water wells in a region that is currently staring at a crippling drought.

Men in the region have vowed that the group’s reign of terror is finally coming to an end. The women in Beletweyne have not been left behind either, as pictures going round on social media have shown milk and food prepared by the women for the frontline troops fighting the terrorists.